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10099https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303945.htmlMon, 21 Aug 2017 00:40:21 GMThttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303945.html
The spouse reconnected with his former therapist via Facebook instant messaging this weekend. They got to talking about current events. <br /><br />"I counseled a member of a neo-Nazi group once," the therapist said. <br /><br />"Did you learn anything useful about the movement?"<br /><br />"This particular fellow was a victim of childhood sexual abuse. I think that was the root of his rage," the therapist said. <br /><br />It makes me wonder how things would be different if American mental health care were in better shape.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=303945" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303945.htmlpublic4https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303649.htmlFri, 18 Aug 2017 00:25:45 GMThttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303649.html
The news is apocalyptically awful, of course. But I'm a Southerner, and I never expected that I would live to see those statues come down. It was something I didn't even dare to <em>hope</em> for.<br /><br />I don't want to lose sight of how amazing that is.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=303649" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303649.htmlpublic9https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303565.htmlFri, 21 Jul 2017 02:24:34 GMTKidlet storyhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303565.html
New Draco-centric story from the kidlet over at AO3! I betaed. I even offered some comments that were not smiley faces. <br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/11562936"><strong>I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine</strong></a> (24327 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/terminally_underwhelmed"><strong>terminally_underwhelmed</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter%20-%20J*d*%20K*d*%20Rowling">Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence<br />Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s), Pre-Harry/Draco - Relationship<br />Characaters: Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Blaise Zabini, Luna Lovegood, Arthur Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, more like ace-storia amirite, various OCs, Minor Characters<br />Additional Tags: Epilogue What Epilogue, War Aftermath, Emotional Growth, Bureaucracy, Pre-Slash, Friendship, headcanon dump<br />Series: Part 1 of <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/series/777360">Solitaire/Mercenary</a><br />Summary: <p>They're together when the Dark Lord falls. </p><p>Draco is barely aware of his own senses, half-blind and exhausted from months upon months of corrosive fear, and whatever shred of reality is still allotted to him is in his father’s urgent grip on his shoulder and his mother’s hands around his and the way he leans on both of them.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=303565" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303565.htmlkidletbetaharry potterpublic1https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303171.htmlWed, 19 Jul 2017 01:32:01 GMTThe episodes that never werehttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303171.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://lunabee34.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://lunabee34.dreamwidth.org/'><b>lunabee34</b></a></span> says: "Tell me about the episode (or book chapter) that never appeared in one of your fandoms but should have."<br /><br />Star Trek TNG: "The Price" is such a god-awful episode that when it leaves those two Ferengi in their shuttlecraft stranded in the Delta Quadrant and doesn't bother to tell us what became of them, that's not even the worst of its crimes. (The worst of its crimes is probably what Crusher and Troi wear to do aerobics.) Anyhow, yes, the Ferengi were acting like jerks, but they didn't deserve to die the kind of death that you'd die stranded in a shuttlecraft 30,000 light-years from home. I think either they should reappear as part of the Borg collective, or the Voyager crew should find them. <br /><br />Due South: More Ray&Ray. Doesn't everyone want more Ray&Ray? Make RayK go to meet a new informant and discover that it's the Bookman. <br /><br />The Princess Bride 2: the story of how Buttercup wound up being the Dread Pirate Roberts.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=303171" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303171.htmldue southstar trek tngthe princess bridepublic6https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303020.htmlTue, 18 Jul 2017 00:53:33 GMTThings country music has in common with fantasyhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303020.html
- There's a group of people who detest it on principle. Asked to define it, they create a definition that basically sorts everything into two categories: Things I Hate, Which Therefore Belong To the Genre I Hate, and Things I Like, Which Obviously Do Not Belong To the Genre I Hate. (Ask a classic rock fan who hates country about Crosby, Stills, & Nash. Or a classic sci-fi fan who hates fantasy about Pern.)<br /><br />- Traditionally, about a third of it was worthless due to sentimentality.<br /><br />- More recently, another third of it is worthless because capitalism endlessly churns it out in identical shiny plastic pieces. <br /><br />- When it's bad, there's nothing worse.<br /><br />- When it's good, it captures the human spirit so well that it brings tears to your eyes.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=303020" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/303020.htmlpublic9https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302656.htmlFri, 09 Jun 2017 01:38:18 GMTMoving, againhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302656.html
I'm gearing up to move again; now that I don't have to stay in the school district*, I'm looking at a couple of places that are smaller, cheaper, closer to work, and ideally a little less damp. <br /><br />But of course the idea of touching every single item I own, <em>again,</em> is incredibly intimidating. <br /><br />So I decided to try packing one box a day.<br /><br />There's quite a lot of low-hanging fruit -- at least ten boxes that I never got around to <em>un</em>packing two years ago when we moved here. I may very well bog down when it comes to starting from scratch. But here's two days' worth of progress:<br /><br />Day 1<br /><br />Packed: One box from the bedroom. Mostly books and miscellaneous desky stuff. <br /><br />Discarded: One bag of books and three bags of clothes to Goodwill. Half a recycle bin's worth of paper. <br /><br />Find of the day: A bunch of little spiral notebooks from the pre-Iowa days, when I used to get Saturday mornings alone to write. Much probably-doomed writing in there, including the title of a Discworld story ("Hard-Boiled Egg") and the summary of a Sherlock story ("Suicide by vampire. At least, that was the plan.") and about 500 words of a story I was going to write about how in an Alpha/Omega universe the end of fertility must be heralded by an Omegapause ("Everybody around him was so goddamned fucking young.").<br /><br />Day 2<br /><br />Packed: One box of cookbooks and other non-fragile kitcheny stuff. <br /><br />Discarded: Another bag of books ready to go to Goodwill, and a garbage bag full of things which stop being edible after being left in a box on the living room floor for two years. <br /><br />Find of the day: So <em>that's</em> where all the AA batteries were. <br /><br />* Let's just take a moment to let that sink in. Barring really strange circumstances, I am finished with school districts. School districts will never again play a role in my real estate decisions. I am no longer the parent of a public school student. I have attended my last teacher conference, and <em>probably</em> also my last progress report.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=302656" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302656.htmlkidletsherlockhow is this my life?the ruthless discarderfragmentsdiscworldmoving omgpublic17https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302504.htmlSat, 13 May 2017 20:46:39 GMTA new generation ariseshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302504.html
It's a day every mother dreams of: the kidlet makes their fannish debut with a story I'm not even a little bit biased about ...<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/10897068"><strong>make my wish come true</strong></a> (12296 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/terminally_underwhelmed"><strong>terminally_underwhelmed</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter%20-%20J*d*%20K*d*%20Rowling">Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply<br />Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter<br />Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley<br />Additional Tags: Epilogue What Epilogue, Post-War, magical amnesia, Mariah Carey, Fluff & Angst, Slightly Dubious Motivations<br />Summary: <p>Ten minutes later Harry’s drying his hair while staring in his own eyes in the mirror and <em>not moping</em>. Never mind that he's twenty-four and already feels due for a midlife crisis. Never mind that he’s desperate enough for human company that he's considering getting a haircut just for the awkward scalp massage (and even more awkward questions about his scar) while being shampooed and then inviting Dudley out for drinks. He is a <em>fully grown adult</em> making the <em>adult decision</em> of working the entire week leading up to Christmas Day, since there’s a conspicuous lack of other places to be, and he isn't going to start moping about it now. </p><br /><p>“I'm <em>not</em>,” he tells his reflection decisively. His voice is hoarse from lack of use. </p><br /><p>The reflection has no response.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=302504" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302504.htmlkidletrecsharry potterpublic11https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302254.htmlThu, 27 Apr 2017 16:43:57 GMTCookbook experiencehttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302254.html
Has anyone created a family cookbook? Or had other print-on-demand experience?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=302254" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/302254.htmlexplain it all to resfoodpublic5https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301991.htmlMon, 27 Mar 2017 00:47:33 GMTWisConhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301991.html
Just registered the whole family for WisCon -- it seemed too much of a waste to be this close, and still have the kidlet at home, and yet miss the chance. <br /><br />Anybody else going?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=301991" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301991.htmlwisconpublic13https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301761.htmlThu, 16 Mar 2017 23:46:37 GMTCrosspost: Alert for Georgiahttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301761.html
Anybody out there in Georgia's 6th Congressional District? There's a special election coming up for the House of Representatives -- the seat's open because Tom Price resigned to be part of the Trump Administration. Putting a non-Republican in that seat would be a serious public service. <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district_special_election,_2017">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district_special_election,_2017</a><br /><br />Not registered? You can register online until Monday, March 20. <br /><br /><a href="https://swingleft.org/register-to-vote">https://swingleft.org/register-to-vote</a><br /><br />Please take two minutes to register, and put April 18 on your calendar. This is how change happens: one tiny action at a time.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=301761" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301761.htmlpoliticspublic3https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301196.htmlWed, 22 Feb 2017 23:45:53 GMTMovie thoughtshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301196.html
Saw a preview for "Gifted." I hope I can rely on fandom to give me the romance between Chris Evans' character and Octavia Spencer's character which Hollywood will certainly deny me.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=301196" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301196.htmlmoviespublic0https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301048.htmlSat, 18 Feb 2017 17:51:32 GMTQuote of the dayhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301048.html
Kidlet is watching some YouTube personalities whose names I can't remember.<br /><br />Kidlet: "So in college she and her dorm-mates would flash their boobs at each other. They gave each other nicknames based on their nipples."<br /><br />Me: "In the great continuum from Very Heterosexual to Not Really All That Heterosexual, nipple nicknames are ..."<br /><br />Kidlet: "In the Uncanny Valley of straight-white-girl sexuality."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=301048" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/301048.htmlquotesephemerakidletpublic7https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300649.htmlTue, 07 Feb 2017 03:27:19 GMTWhat could make February better? Colonoscopy!https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300649.html
As <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/134196.html">another</a> of my postcards from the Older Than Dirt segment of fandom, I was going to post my highly entertaining colonoscopy experience, and then I remembered that <a href="http://fenopause.dreamwidth.org/30790.html">teenygozer already did it on Fenopause.</a> <br /><br />The only way my experience differed from Teenygozer's was that every time I have any kind of professional service, the universe always seems to issue me some Shakespearean character; this time it was an anesthesiologist who (1) "diagnosed" me with sleep apnea because of the length of my chin (mind you, I'm pretty sure he's right, but come on), (2) treated me to a libertarian healthcare rant, and (3) wanted to chat about legal weed a little more than I was comfortable with in a person with his hand on the sedation pump. <br /><br />And next time I am definitely going to use <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://bone.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bone.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bone</b></a></span>'s <a href="http://fenopause.dreamwidth.org/30790.html?thread=334918#cmt334918">Smart Water method.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=300649" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300649.htmlres explains it allpublic8https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300378.htmlTue, 31 Jan 2017 02:08:25 GMTDiscworld yay!https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300378.html
So remember when I said I'd love to see the worlds of <em>Rivers of London</em> and <em>Good Omens</em> meet? <br /><br />Here's something even better!<br /><br /><a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/9401735"><strong>Rivers of Ankh-Morpork</strong></a> (6357 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/melannen"><strong>melannen</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Rivers%20of%20London%20-%20Ben%20Aaronovitch">Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Discworld%20-%20Terry%20Pratchett">Discworld - Terry Pratchett</a><br />Rating: General Audiences<br />Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply<br />Characters: Peter Grant, Angua von Uberwald, Samuel Vimes, Foul Ole Ron, Gaspode (Discworld), Sybil Ramkin, Thomas Nightingale<br />Additional Tags: Crossover, community policing, hydrological engineering, Ankh-Morpork City Watch, the River Ankh<br />Summary: <p>The Faceless Man miscalculates, and Peter Grant falls into a river. </p><p>...well, more <i>onto</i> a river, really. He may have bounced.</p><br /><br />Terrific voices, completely plausible Discworld fanboy Peter Grant, and a bit of headcanon that made me catch my breath.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=300378" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300378.htmlrivers of londonrecsdiscworldpublic1https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300042.htmlFri, 30 Dec 2016 01:45:16 GMTDecember Daily: fandom &gt; canonhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300042.html
No! It's not over! <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://wanted-a-pony.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://wanted-a-pony.dreamwidth.org/'><b>wanted_a_pony</b></a></span> asks: Are there fandom(s) for which you *only* enjoy fanworks, but you don't intend to (or actively dislike) the canon whatever-it-is? What is/are they?<br /><br />This is a <em>great</em> question, and the answer is: Most of them. <br /><br /><strong>Fandoms for which I genuinely like the source material, and would enjoy it and seek it out whether there were fanworks or not:</strong> Due South. The Discworld books and Good Omens. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jeeves and Wooster (stories). The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (novels). Horatio Hornblower (stories and novels). Georgette Heyer novels. Pixar movies. John Hughes movies. MASH. <br /><br /><strong>Fandoms where the source material is entertaining, but fanworks add something significant to my engagement with it:</strong> Sherlock Holmes (storles and novels) and most of the Holmes movies/series<sup>1</sup>. Most any Disney cartoon (except Lilo & Stitch, which is perfect unto itself, perfect, I tell you<sup>2</sup>). <br /><br /><strong>Fandoms where I really can't take the source material very seriously except as a kit that fans will take apart and reassemble into something actually worth our time:</strong> Marvel Cinematic Universe. James Bond movies. Harry Potter (both novels and movies). Angel (TV series). Star Trek (all series and all movies, including reboot). Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Star Wars (original trilogy, The Force Awakens, and Rogue One). The Losers, the Magnificent Seven remake, and other such festivals of beefcake. Supernatural. Teen Wolf. X-Men. Inception. The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (movies). <br /><br /><strong>Fandoms where the source material is barely tolerable and redeemed only by the fanworks:</strong> Leverage. Star Wars (prequels). Merlin. And please forgive me, but: The Sentinel.<br /><br /><blockquote><br /><sup>1</sup>Exception: The Ritchie movies. Beautiful as they are, I cannot enjoy these movies, and I cannot enjoy any fanworks based on them, because the relationship between Holmes and Watson is so full of resentment and hard feelings, and that relationship is really the main thing for me.<br /><br /><sup>2</sup>Not that I wouldn't enjoy any Jumba/Pleakley fanworks you wanted to point me at. <br /></blockquote> <br /><br />How would your list be different from mine? This was a fascinating exercise. <br /><br />And I'll be out of wifi range till Tuesday, but y'all know you can ask me a question anytime.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=300042" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300042.htmldecember memefandompublic3https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300000.htmlWed, 28 Dec 2016 01:38:52 GMTDecember meme: canon momentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300000.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://muccamukk.dreamwidth.org/'><b>muccamukk</b></a></span> asks: Moments in canon that still emotionally resonate with you, many years later.<br /><br />A nice one to end the meme with!<br /><br />- Fraser in "Asylum" saying, "You didn't shoot that man," and when Ray tries to talk him out of his certainty he says, "I know you."<br /><br />- I'm not even especially fannish about these characters, but the moment in "The Breakfast Club" when Andrew the jock is talking to Allison the basket case about parents, and he says, "What do they do to you?" and she says, "They ignore me."<br /><br />- I was sold on Harry Potter when the snake at the zoo said, "Brazil, here I come." It wasn't just the worldbuilding but the wit. <br /><br />- Zelenka's description of Atlantis coming up from under the water -- he was speaking poetry, and if you didn't look up a translation, you'd never know. <br /><br />- Any Sherlock Holmes adaptation is going to live or die in my esteem by how it treats John Watson. BBC Sherlock sold me in the exchange where Sherlock asks what John would be thinking if he were dying. "Please let me live," John says. Sherlock scoffs, "Use your imagination," and John says, "I don't have to."<br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300000.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=300000" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/300000.htmldue southdecember memestargate atlantisbreakfast clubsherlockharry potterpublic0https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299644.htmlWed, 21 Dec 2016 01:52:57 GMTDecember Daily: fandom charactershttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299644.html
Yeah, I skipped a day; I spent the evening at both a City Council meeting <em>and</em> an overlong school concert. (I feel sorry for the orchestra kids; by the time it's their turn, everybody's looking at their watches.) <br /><br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kass.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kass.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kass</b></a></span> asks: what fannish character is bringing you the most joy right now?<br /><br />I'm ... not feeling the fannish joy right now. <br /><br />Bits of it are there. There's a stage in every book I read, every movie I see, where I'm thinking, "Oh, hey, this person could be matched with that person ... this universe could cross over with that other universe." But somehow it doesn't catch. <br /><br />I think there are two things going on:<br /><br />1. The source media themselves are more fanfic-savvy now, and so nothing totally loses control of its subtext the way it used to in the old days. <br /><br />I can't imagine anybody making entertainment in 2016 without being aware that <em>viewers/readers will consider the possibility that characters are attracted to one another even if you didn't write them to be attracted to one another -- even if they are [gasp] the same gender.</em> You'd have to be living under a rock on another planet to have missed that development.<br /><br />And of course to the extent that this gets us actual non-heterosexual characters that's a great thing, though that part is not moving along quite as briskly as I would like. <br /><br />But -- like, we're now getting classic Trek out of the library and watching it. And <em>nothing</em> equals the accidental subtext-fest that was classic Trek. I can see where the people who were slashing classic Trek could feel like they were totally stealing the archetypes and totally expressing the true nature of the show <em>at the same time.</em> There's nothing like that now. <br /><br />2. I'm not interacting enough with fans (a situation that's unlikely to change until my nest goes empty next fall), and it's just no fun to be fannish alone. <br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299644.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=299644" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299644.htmldecember memefandompublic2https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299517.htmlSun, 18 Dec 2016 22:26:16 GMTDecember Daily: parentinghttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299517.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kass.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kass.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kass</b></a></span> asks: What do you enjoy most about parenting a kidlet of this age?<br /><br />Oh, man, this age is the best. This age is ... when I think about it, it almost seems unethical. I have basically genetically engineered and hand-trained my own ideal roommate. <br /><br />The parenting role starts out every-waking-hour-and-then-some at birth, and gradually, pretty steadily, shrinks. Getting accustomed to the shrinkage may be <em>the</em> challenge of parenthood -- remembering that six-year-olds don't need you to be responsible for most of their clothing choices and ten-year-olds don't need you to be responsible for their bladders and fourteen-year-olds don't need you to be responsible for their friendships. <br /><br />By now, I don't really have to exercise my "authority." I have just enough superiority in life experience that I'm occasionally called upon to give advice, which is good for my ego, and just enough difference in personality type that I'm the Family List-Keeper, and that's about it. <br /><br />(I didn't <em>mind</em> exercising authority when the kidlet was smaller and life required it, but it does take energy. It's very restful to be able to say, "Well, if you make that choice, what do you predict the consequences will be? OK, does that sound good to you? Cool, you've made a decision. Good talk.")<br /><br />So the only thing I don't like about it is looking at the pileup of college mailings and knowing how soon it's going to end!<br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299517.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=299517" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299517.htmldecember memekidletpublic4https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299200.htmlSun, 18 Dec 2016 02:23:58 GMTDecember Daily: crossovery thoughtshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299200.html
In the absence of a question for today, I'm just going to toss this out there: <br /><br />I'm semi-voluntarily* devouring Ben Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" novels and so far quite enjoying them. These are books that feature a cop who's an apprentice wizard, and also such supernatural characters as something kind of vampirish, something kind of dwarfish, something kind of goblinish, and the human incarnations of the spirits of all the rivers. <br /><br />So the Rivers series is especially lovely in its sense of place, and in <em>Moon Over Soho,</em> I came upon this description:<br /><br /><blockquote>Cheam is another typical outer London village that acquired, in short order, a railway station, some posh detached villas in the late-Victorian style, and finally a smothering blanket of mock-Tudor semis built in the 1930s. Cheam is what the green belt was established to prevent happening to the rest of southeast England. Pictures of Cheam adorn the walls of planning offices of every Home County to serve as an awful warning.</blockquote><br /><br />Which made me think, as one does, how much I'd like to see Aziraphale and Crowley in this universe. <br /><br />It would be a challenge, since the Good Omens mythos is Christian (for values of Christian that are very interested in the Genesis and Revelation and not too much interested in anything in between) and the Rivers mythos is so cheerfully pagan. But that might be part of the fun -- poor Aziraphale would have a crisis if he had to admit that he <em>liked</em> a genius loci.<br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>* By semi-voluntarily I mean that I'm enjoying them very much, but a long vacation and a Jeeves and Wooster anthology taught me not to binge-read the works of a single author in a single universe; too much risk of the author's quirks becoming annoying via repetition. HOWEVER, the library owned Book 1 and Book 5, so not unreasonably I put in a Request To Purchase form suggesting that they maybe consider buying Books 2, 3, and 4 ... and when they bought them, they immediately checked them out to me. So I'm trying to finish them before they're due back. </blockquote><br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299200.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=299200" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/299200.htmlgood omensrivers of londondecember memepublic2https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298784.htmlSat, 17 Dec 2016 01:53:59 GMTDecember Daily: best vacationhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298784.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://zulu.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://zulu.dreamwidth.org/'><b>zulu</b></a></span> asks: best vacation/break you ever had?<br /><br />That would have to be our honeymoon! <br /><br />This was in 1989, so pre-internet. The spouse, who is comically inept at organization most of the time, somehow managed to put together this lovely tour of multiple bed-and-breakfast type places in multiple towns up and down through New England. It was mid-October, and the leaves were falling. We went to 18th-century graveyards in Boston, rented bicycles on Nantucket, visited the official shop of the official witch of Salem. Once it rained all day, and we stayed in the library of the inn we were staying at and read books, and the inn's two standard poodles (I still remember that one of them was named Lili Marlene) kept us very dignified company while wearing matching sweaters. <br /><br />The one thing that we hadn't planned on was needing to spend one night on the road between New England and central Illinois. I was doing all the driving because we were in my car and the spouse couldn't drive stick yet, and when I hit the point of total driver's exhaustion, we stopped at a place called the Stardust Motor Inn near Schenectady, New York, which was the worst kind of no-name motel imaginable. The woman who checked us in was wearing green face makeup, and we had been out of touch for so long that it was only when we were in the room that we figured out that this was because it was Halloween. <br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298784.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=298784" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298784.htmldecember memepublic5https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298625.htmlFri, 16 Dec 2016 02:49:21 GMThttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298625.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/'><b>james</b></a></span> asks: Who is the most obscure composer, band, or individual musician that you adore?<br /><br />I don't quite know if you can call them a band -- more of an event -- but I love the Revels. I first met them via Christmas music, of course, but they also have collections for other seasons, and one on a seagoing theme, and others as well. There's not just one Revels, either; I have music from the Portland Revels and the California Revels. <br /><br />This is music that you want to get on CD so you can read the booklet. I've learned all kinds of things about the history of music, or history <em>through</em> music, from the Revels. <br /><br />It's a dream of mine to actually see a Revels show, but since I seem to keep moving further and further away from big cities, I don't know how likely it is. <br /><br />I also have some much-loved songs from Solstice Assembly. The CD notes said something like, "This collection was born when I thought to myself, 'What if the Revels came to my town and they didn't invite me?!'" They seem a bit more irreverent than the Revels. <br /><br /><br /><br />Christmas Revels:<br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/un470l">Aro Que Nostre Seign'Es Nat</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/xcqe3x">Malpas Wassail</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/eypo4z">Traveller's Prayer</a> (for your pagan needs)<br /><br />Non-Christmas Revels:<br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/o43vah">The Merry Horn</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/5r8ewq">Anchor Song</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/bgr84a">Le Semeur</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Solstice Assembly<br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/abwljm">The Ripe and Bearded Barley</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/7ipfxl">Roulez!</a><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/file/uo148a">No Ozone</a><br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298625.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=298625" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298625.htmlmusicdecember memepublic3https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298357.htmlThu, 15 Dec 2016 04:25:41 GMTDecember Daily: Harry Potter on its own meritshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298357.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/'><b>james</b></a></span> asks: Which (if any) Harry Potter book is the best totally on its own, with no meta or context or fanfic to bolster it up?<br /><br />First I eliminated Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. They're too tied up in the 7-book arc to be accessible to someone who hasn't read the rest of the books, and frankly they needed some editing that they didn't get. If you weren't already in love with the universe and the characters, I'm not sure you'd read them and say, "These are good books."<br /><br />Then I eliminated Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, because if you take it on its own instead of with its series, it's a children's book. It's the door into everything we all loved, but taken on its own, there's not enough to it. <br /><br />At that point, left with Books 2 through 5, I was at a loss. So I punted the question to the kidlet, who just re-read the whole series last month. <br /><br />After some thought (but not really very much thought), the kidlet said, "Prisoner of Azkaban. Because Voldemort doesn't dominate the whole plot. He's part of the worldbuilding."<br /><br />Also: the Marauders in person, and their relationship with Snape; Dementors and Patronuses or possibly Patroni; Buckbeak; Time-Turners ... <br /><br />I can't disagree.<br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298357.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=298357" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298357.htmlharry potterdecember memepublic9https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298146.htmlThu, 15 Dec 2016 04:02:00 GMTCouple more Christmas songs, by requesthttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298146.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://singulardegenerate.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://singulardegenerate.dreamwidth.org/'><b>singulardegenerate</b></a></span> asked for these, so here they are for everyone: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/c9ypXNx9i%2FkWVdq4bhdxUg">Mike, Peggy, and Penny Seeger, "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow," and Cathie Ryan and Liam Tiernan, "In Dulci Jubilo"</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=298146" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/298146.htmlmusicpublic0https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297770.htmlWed, 14 Dec 2016 02:07:10 GMTDecember Daily: senseshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297770.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://mific.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://mific.dreamwidth.org/'><b>mific</b></a></span> asks: If you had to give up one of your 5 senses (you know, to save Atlantis or Benton Fraser's life, or suchlike), which would it be and why?<br /><br />Oh, wow. This is a really tough one. I don't wanna!<br /><br />Lose vision and I lose the ability to drive a car or read a book. I know there are lots of people who get along without their vision, but given the choice, I'm going to take an easier option.<br /><br />I'm somewhat hard of hearing as it is, and it's incredibly frustrating. Give up hearing altogether and I lose music. There has to be an easier option.<br /><br />I once knew a woman who had lost her sense of smell -- something about a severe disease when she was a toddler? She told me that when you lose smell, you also lose taste; she could enjoy spicy food and variations in temperature, but generally she found eating to be a chore. And think of the access to memory that you'd lose if you lost smell! This is not a loss that would interfere with work or hobbies, no, but it would take so much of the fun out of life. <br /><br />Losing the sense of touch sounds <em>dangerous.</em> It would deprive me of everything from itching to pressure to heat and cold sensitivity to my sense of balance.<br /><br />So I think we're down to taste. I'd hate to see it go -- I'd probably lose the pleasure of cooking as well as the pleasure of eating -- but it seems like the lesser of five evils. <br /><br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297770.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=297770" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297770.htmldecember memepublic5https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297515.htmlTue, 13 Dec 2016 02:31:01 GMTDecember Daily: seeing it on-screenhttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297515.html
<span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://james.dreamwidth.org/'><b>james</b></a></span> asks: Is there a tv show or movie that you would pay a billion dollars to get either a re-working of an episode or a sequel to? (It might not cost that much. Millions.) Because sometimes fanfic isn't enough, you just need to see it on-screen.<br /><br />Wow. Where even to begin? <br /><br />All respect to Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman, but I'd like to see the Harry Potter series done with the teachers cast at the correct ages. I believe we have canon that Snape, Lupin, and Black should all have been in their early thirties at the start of the series. The HP wikia gives McGonagall a birth date of 1935 and puts her leaving Hogwarts in 1957, making Maggie Smith about the right age, but I don't know where those numbers come from; she's described with dark hair, and I pictured her in her early fifties. <br /><br />But if I only have enough for one thing, I'm not sure I'd squander it on that. <br /><br />No, you know what I'd spend it on? A reboot of "The Breakfast Club," that's what! Update the stereotypes (in the 21st century you'd have to have at least one character gay, for one thing, and an all-white cast would not fly) ... the parenting issues and the school problems probably wouldn't need any changes ... if I have my preferences, the nerd character won't be stuck doing everybody's homework while everyone else pairs off ... <br /><br />I would so watch that!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Go <a href="http://resonant.dreamwidth.org/294260.html?mode=reply">here</a> to add your own question. <br /><br /><span class="cuttag_container"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b>(&nbsp;<a href="https://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297515.html#cutid1">The questions thus far are under here.</a>&nbsp;)</b><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=resonant&ditemid=297515" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentshttps://resonant.dreamwidth.org/297515.htmldecember memebreakfast clubharry potterpublic0